● He got over his fear of water when One Direction filmed the music video for "What Makes You Beautiful".

● His first pet was a staffie dog named Tyson.

● His favorite band is *NSYNC.

● His first play was "Grease".

● His grandfather on his fathers side, Mohammed was born in Pakistan. His mothers family is from Ireland and England.

● He is an artist, he even drew some of the pictures on One Direction's first album "Up All Night".

● He has three sisters, one is older named Doniya and his younger sisters; Waliyha and Safaa.

● One Direction were formed at the bootcamp stage of "The X Factor" (2004) in 2010 when the judges felt Malik, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Harry Styles and Niall Horan were too good to throw away, but not interesting enough to make it as soloists. The decision to put the five boys in the group proved to be popular as they made it to The X Factor final and were the only band to be included on the 2011 X Factor Tour.

● Had he not auditioned for The X Factor, he would have liked to do an English Degree at University in the hopes of becoming a teacher.